Long-awaited PSP RPG Black Rock Shooter: The Game will hit PSP via PlayStation Network on April 23 in the U.S. and April 24 in Europe, NIS America has announced.

Due to licensing restrictions, the game will not be available in Canada, Mexico, and select European countries.

Find a story blurb and a list of key features below.

Story

2032 AD – Earth has been ruthlessly assaulted by extraterrestrials, and nineteen years of nonstop battle now threatens the very existence of humanity. The last hope for human survival is BRS, a heroine created solely to save planet Earth; she is the ultimate battle android. But when she is awakened to end the battle once and for all, there are only twelve human beings left on Earth…

Key Features

The World: Explore ghostly city ruins, bizarre alien structures, and more as you travel through illustrator Huke’s vision of a devastated future Earth!

The Enemy: Engage in lightning-fast battles where your choices and reflexes are the only thing standing between you and total annihilation!

The Girl: Level up BRS to equip her with a bevy of attacks and skills to make full use of her superhuman abilities and gigantic cyber-cannon!

The Last Hope: Complete a variety of missions for the last remaining humans to unlock new guns, costumes, challenges, and more!

View a new set of screenshots at the gallery. Watch two new trailers below.

Finally!! I remember seeing reviews bashing this game, but man I really loved it. The combat system is just so fun, and I actually really dug that the game was shorter; the length accentuated the fast-paced combat in a meaningful way, I felt, plus it never became a grind-fest rather than just a way to play. Plus the first map, that light-blue/orange city, is just gorgeous.
And now I’ll be able to actually experience the story! Hip hip!

MosquitoLemon

Hahaha, wow, a publisher making a promise on a PSP game and actually keeping it? There is a (portable console) god!

No… No. They most certainly can’t, lol. I can think of a few JP titles off the top of my head that aren’t compatible (yet?) with Vita :P

Adol Christin

Thank god the PSP and Vita are region free :)

Houeclipse

I’ve been waiting for this! and now my wish has come true!!

Eclipse

What a pleasant surprise~!

Well done, NISA.

Sevyne

I honestly thought the localization was scrapped even though they said it wasn’t. It was just taking way too long to stay optimistic, so this comes as a huge surprise to me. Glad I was wrong.

fireemblembeast

YEEEEESSSSSS!!! But is there dual audio? <3 Kana Hanazawa

Nerroth

Actually, this incarnation of BRS is voiced in Japan by Sakamoto Maaya.

fireemblembeast

Really? I had no idea :(
I wonder why…Well, regardless, I still am looking forward to this! :3

Nerroth

The OVA/anime BRS and the game BRS are different incarnations of the same concept, in separate universes. (The closest comparison I can think of is how Fate/Stay Night Saber is different from Fate/Extra Saber, despite how the two may look at first glance.)

Indeed, Max Factory have a separate set of listings for the Figmas of each version; they refer to this BRS as “BRS2035”:

Congrats to those in territories which will get the game, but it’s unfortunate that the Canadian PSN will miss out.

fireemblembeast

I won’t mind too much if they don’t, but hope they keep the opening the same. Knowing NISA, they probably will.

Kurisu Makise

“Due to licensing restrictions, the game will not be available in Canada, Mexico, and select European countries.” Thanks a lot NISA, thanks a lot…

Budgiecat

Blame the greedy license holders that didnt want to play ball

Kurisu Makise

I’ll blame them both >(! Though I understand that for whatever crazy reason, Japan loves to separate Canada from the US license (though honestly, Mexico too? Should be grateful people in Mexico are willing to commit to the hobby with the prices they’ve got to pay).

GODDUKEMONEXA

not available canada or mexico? XD ha PSP with LME 1.8 and free games for everyone

I wasn’t thinking of their foreign market. I was thinking it would have been nice had they released an enhanced version in Japan, then THAT’S the one we could have got. I mean, geez… Sure, the Vita is doing poorly in North America, but the PSP has been dead for quite some time.

MosquitoLemon

I don’t know, did it sell well in Japan? In my experience, the game is kind-of garbage (ImageEpoch, what do you expect…) and none of my friends, even the BRS fans, like it.

I just take this as a rare example of a publisher/localization team actually making good on a promise. Imagine if Type-0 got a release date! I don’t think we’d hear any complaints.

MosquitoLemon

I don’t know, did it sell well in Japan? In my experience, the game is kind-of garbage (ImageEpoch, what do you expect…) and none of my friends, even the BRS fans, like it.

I just take this as a rare example of a publisher/localization team actually making good on a promise. Imagine if Type-0 got a release date! I don’t think we’d hear any complaints.

OverlordZetta

Well this is a pleasant surprise. Hopefully it’ll be playable on the Vita (I’m sure it will be, right?) so I can actually play it – haven’t been able to find my PSP for weeks.

Man i remember this game along time ago hahaha
go to see it comeing state side at last :D

new_tradition

I personally wasn’t interested in this game, but I’m curious what licensing issue prevents this being sold on the Canadian PSN. If I change my mind, I still have my EU PSN account to fall back on, or I could just make a US account and buy respective region psn cash codes. That’s the beauty of (mostly) region free content <3

sonyntendo

OH MY GOODNESS!

One of the best PSP games ever made of all time is finally here to be played properly.

Thank you thank you! NISA!

Back with another one of those block rockin’ beats!!!!

So very special!
So very stylish!
Super love this game.

MightySpirit

After being in the dark so long, I’m glad NISA finally brought some light to this game release. Although it’s a bit sudden, and I’m quite disappointed they’re not releasing a limited edition physical copy. But I still look forward to buying and playing this game!

Roxy

Screw that, make a new BRS game for the Vita.

This game is old news. And everyone that wanted it already played it through other means.

Nice…. But what about the figma? They did said about wanting to bring it here…

Elvick

Great, I live in Canada.

Oh well, was only interested in the game for the figma anyway, but when they said they’d bring it with a digital copy of the game I lost interest then. So even if it were in Canada, I’d still not care for the digital only approach.

And I think their silence for so long on this has been pretty unprofessional, people have been asking for this for ages. To the point where I personally just viewed it as localization vaporware.

MosquitoLemon

Final Fantasy Type-0, VSXIII are irresponsible. This, on the other hand, is unprecedented!

Sae-Won Yoon

Why couldn’t they use the ONE OK ROCK song?

I get financial issues, but c’mon their songs are literally english most of the time